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Ontario Premier Doug Ford showed up in Cambridge on Wednesday and made it clear the province plans to push back against the federal carbon tax by any means necessary.
Speaking from inside a trucking company’s warehouse, Ford said there are other ways to tackle climate change.
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“A carbon tax is not the only way to fight climate change,” Ford said. “But what a carbon tax will do is chase manufacturing jobs, small business jobs and trucking jobs out of Ontario. Because it is clear you can be for jobs or you can be for a carbon tax, but you can’t be for both.”
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Ford went on to say that the carbon tax won’t actually help the environment.
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“A carbon tax will make no difference to the environment,” Ford said while pointing out that this new tax “will cost the typical household $650 by 2022.”
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Kitchener-Hespeler MPP Marwan Tabbara responded with a statement challenging Ford’s views.
“A price on pollution across Canada will cut more pollution in 2022 than closing 30 coal units for an entire year,” he said in a statement.
Greenpeace Canada Senior Energy Strategist Keith Stewart also criticized Ford’s remarks.
“Doug Ford unleashed a Trump-style firehose of false statements about carbon pricing today,” Stewart said on Twitter. “He not only ignored all of the evidence of its impacts on our environment and economy, but also the fact that Ontarians will be getting rebates from the federal government.”
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